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Prof Emeritus Spelman College, Adjunct Prof SETU, Ireland. Board Gathering 4 Gardner. Curator Annals of Irish Maths. Author "Mathematical Card Magic" AKP/CRC (2013).
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A fairytale in Tuscany. Fun fact: Taken with my smartphone

Hola, lads 🇪🇸 🇪🇸🇪🇸 #thepatheticcasuals

There are people in this country who, if given the chance to do the 2024 election all over again, *still* wouldn’t vote for Kamala, even after all this. We’re surrounded by utter morons.

Still life, Joppa style.

You know what to do!

latest stop in my NA beer travels is Safety Glasses IPA from Industrial Arts Brewing in Beacon, NY 🍺

#BookSky

In February, a team of four mathematicians proved a connection between modular forms and complicated equations called abelian surfaces. This work, which took nearly a decade to complete, holds promise for many open questions in math.

Meet me at the corner of Adderall & Ketamine and we’ll discuss the future of USA. Bring cash.

St. Patrick’s grave Down Cathedral

New this week is our Grisette - Talus 4.2%. It's light, herbal + citrusy, with a touch of saison spice and phenolic notes. The Nelson Sauvin 4.9% version is also available — the hops have mellowed, but the overall flavour has depended Available here tinyurl.com/3czcjhue and at our Spa Road Venue.

We are delighted to be hosting the Kathleen Lonsdale touring exhibition in the Royal Irish Academy this week to tie in with the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize Ceremony. Thank you to Riverbank Arts Centre and Kildare Library Service and artist, Maeve Clancy.

There HAS to already exist some free, web-based geometry "game" that gives you a shape, and a "target" shape congruent to the first one, and you have to perform a sequence of transformations to move the former onto the latter. If it doesn't already exist... I may have to remedy that. #iteachmath

A beautiful Bronze Age cauldron, recovered from a bog in Raffrey, Co. Down Down Museum

Just read suggested article link. Very informative. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/g...

War sehr gut ☺️

Down Cathedral

America’s safety now hinges on a guy whose emergency contact is still his mom.

When I‘m writing, there is music in my head. Of almost all chapters, articles and books I have written, I do know the tune that then was in my head, and I do remember the very sound scapes of each text in the making. #amwriting

Ringo & George?!

I steamed some clothes. They're still wrinkled, but in a classy way

Liverpool?

Thinking over an event I was involved in. We were asked: Do people tell you what to write? I was with 2 other genre writers who are best sellers. I answered no. Nobody tells me what to write. The other two writers chose not to answer the question. Days later one said to me: I wish I could do that+

Mirror Mirror In the Moat for #Scape #EastCoastKin #castle #Caerphilly #photography #reflections #bluesky #Cymru #clouds #moat #Wales (Android phone camera)

I was about to start researching in the Kassel Altstädter Gemeinde church book from 1679-1717 but I can't get beyond this exquisite cover page. What talent that parish clerk had! And he had to mix his own ink and cut his own quill pens.

The pre-Islamic script from Dhofar was undeciphered and therefore there are no inscriptions of this type in #OCIANA. Now we have the decipherment of the main variant of the Dhofari alphabet: t.co/ngtzPB9ZPz

Princeton University Press seeks a skilled multi-tasker who is organized and has an interest in books, academia and publishing for a Digital Marketing Assistant (DMA) to join the Marketing and Sales team. Learn more and apply here. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

- What’s for dinner Mum? - A little dish called ‘What we have left before shopping tomorrow’ - Meaning? - Rice, broccoli, 2 sausages, 1 piece of bacon & a chicken breast cubed & fried … - Okaaaay.

This day three years ago: 12th century window Teampall na hÓighe / Templenahoe Ardfert #Kerry

Early in the pandemic, I knew multiple disabled people who bought wedding rings so, if they were taken to the ICU, doctors might think they were loved by someone else, and therefore might be worth saving. Because we know they don't think we're worth saving in our own right.

I am so bored of these big budget American remakes of original UK content

In a democracy, *should* the question we ask ourselves be "Am I better off?" What about "are other people better off?" "Are the laws fair?" "Are we more secure?" "Are we trashing the planet for the future?" The left, in particular, should be really wary of transactional framings of democracy. 1/3

The oldest aircraft we're tracking right now is Daisy, an 82-year-old DC3. www.flightradar24.com/SECFP/3aabe534 What's better, we flew on it! Take a look at the video here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUi7...

Is it #CastleFriday ? It is now. Here’s one of my favourite castles Castel Carreg Cennen, Carms. Have a fab Friday folks 😊 ☕️

Royal Canal, looking west from Granard Bridge, Dublin

Surprised they got caught www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘There is no single-point perspective, no study of human anatomy, little movement. Instead there is silk, gold and suspended emotion – an embrace of mystery that feels archaic and alien.’ @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on medieval Sienese painting, at the National Gallery: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

It's been an interesting news day, and a great reminder that women are far too emotional to hold positions of power. 🙄

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

Amazing. Respect the lede.

We're staying at an Airbnb for my birthday and we just sat down to watch TV but the TV remote was basically dead and Shane said "if only someone brought AAA batteries" and then went and got the AAA batteries he brought?????

🎉 Thrilled to announce I've been granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor at NYU Environmental Studies this fall! This wouldn't have been possible without my generous professional network—both in & beyond academia—and especially the immense unwavering support from my department. Thank you!

The great seal of Edward IV attached to a royal charter from 1467 granting English legal status to an Irish woman, Sadhbh Kavanagh, at @nlireland.bsky.social

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cistercians preferred seals! A high proportion (63%) of the C12/13th manuscripts from the monastery at Clairvaux were bound in sealskin, mostly harbor & harp seals from Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland & Greenland, perhaps chosen to match their white habits. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/medieva...

People who thought Born in the USA was a patriotic anthem and were happy about it are upset Springsteen got political ...